2008 Conference Program - Midwest Political Science Association

Saturday, April 5-2:45 pm
42-102 ROUNDTABLE: THE STATE OF JUDICIAL
ELECTIONS RESEARCH
Room Empire on the Lobby Level, Sat at 2:45 pm
Chair Matthew J. Streb, Northern Illinois University
mstreb@niu.edu
Panelist Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University
baum.4@osu.edu
Christopher W. Bonneau, University of Pittsburgh
cwb7@pitt.edu
Charles Gardner Geyh, Indiana University
cgeyh@indiana.edu
James L. Gibson, Washington University, St. Louis
jgibson@artsci.wustl.edu
Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University
hallme@msu.edu
43-11 THEORETICAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC LAW AND
FEDERALISM
Room PDR 9 on the 3rd Floor, Sat at 2:45 pm
Chair Stephen Lange, Morehead State University
s.lange@morehead-st.edu
Paper The Supreme Court and Climate Change: The Case of
Massachusetts vs. Environmental Protections Agency (2007)
This paper reviews the case of Massachusetts vs. Environmental
Protections Agency (2007) and offers analysis of the ruling in the
context of federalism rulings and recent jurisprudence.
William Green, Morehead State University
wmcgreen@prodigy.net
Paper Political Culture and the Foundations of State Administrative
Law and State Administrative Procedures Acts
Elazar's political culture is explored as a crucial determinant of the
context of state administrative jurisprudence and state APAs and
related regulatory environments.
Brian Weber, Morehead State University
bmwebe01@morehead-st.edu
Michael W. Hail, Morehead State University
m.hail@moreheadstate.edu
Disc. Stephen Lange, Morehead State University
s.lange@morehead-st.edu
45-13 WELFARE POLICY: IMPLEMENTATION AND
DIFFUSION
Room UEH 400 on the 4th Floor, Sat at 2:45 pm
Chair Andrew Karch, University of Texas, Austin
akarch@mail.utexas.edu
Paper Facing Economic Uncertainty: “Social Insurance” or “Welfare”
This paper will explore how American states have provided
different ‘social safety-net’ to people facing economic uncertainty.
The impact of economic openness and job security on welfare
policy variation will be examined along with other factors.
Ji Young Jang, Michigan State University
jangji@msu.edu
Paper Second-Order Devolution and the Implementation of TANF
Work-sanctions
We examine how SOD influences the implementation of TANF
work-sanction by expanding the discreation of case managers and
giving more authority in designing and implementing sanctions to
local governments in 50 states using multilevel analysis.
Byungkyu Kim, University of Kentucky
bkim2@uky.edu
Richard C. Fording, University of Kentucky
rford@uky.edu
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Carrots and Sticks: Race and Minority Political Power in
Welfare Reform
We examine the application of carrots and sticks in the
implementation of welfare reform in Louisiana and investigate the
role of minority political power and political party control at the
local level affect the implementation of policy.
Belinda Creel Davis, Louisiana State University
davisbe@lsu.edu
Younghee Lim, Louisiana State University
lim108@lsu.edu
Michelle Livermore, Louisiana State University
mliver@lsu.edu
The Role of Power Relations and Ideas in State Policy-Making
A case study of welfare reform in Maryland is used to explore the
role of power relations in state policy-making. The paper finds
that power cannot describe all choices that states make and that the
process of learning can be just as important.
Tim Meinke, Lynchburg College
meinke@lynchburg.edu
Holley Tankersley, Coastal Carolina University
htankers@coastal.edu
Andrew Karch, University of Texas, Austin
akarch@mail.utexas.edu
46-9 SOCIAL NETWORKS
Room Salon 9 on the 3rd Floor, Sat at 2:45 pm
Paper Democracy by Design: The Institutionalization of Neighborhood
Participation Networks in Los Angeles
We analyze the institutionalization of neighborhood-level
participative bodies by examining how system level features and
neighborhood characteristics influence the dynamics by which such
bodies foster the development of political networks.
Juliet Ann Musso, University of Southern California
musso@usc.edu
Christopher Weare, University of Southern California
weare@usc.edu
Kyu-Nahm Jun, Wayne State University
kn.jun@wayne.edu
Paper Interlocal Service Cooperation: A Structural Embeddedness
Explanation
This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in
influencing interlocal service delivery for six types of public
services, using data on interlocal contracting arrangements from a
survey of 4,400 local public officials in 644 cities.
Kelly M. LeRoux, University of Kansas
kleroux@ku.edu
Paul W. Brandenburger, University of Kansas
paulbr@ku.edu
Sanjay K. Pandey, University of Kansas
skpandey@ku.edu
Paper Local Welfare Service Delivery Network and Collaborative
Governance Structure
This is case study in Korea local welfare system by comparing
legal, cognitive and actual local welfare service deliver system,
network and structure applying social network analysis
Hyung-Jun Park, Sungkyunkwan University
hyungjun.park@gmail.com
Joonhee Ahn, Hoseo University
ja390@hoseo.edu
Disc. Trenton J. Davis, Georgia Southern University
tjdavis@georgiasouthern.edu
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